How to bring out color in lps corals?

barndtman84 · Oct 1, 2012

I have had much success growing and fragging sps, and lps corals but I recently moved my reef from a 90 gal to a 125 gal. Now while under my 90 I had 2 blue moon 120watt white/blue LED fixtures for a total of 240watts.

Now I have 3 20watt 14k LED's in spot light style so I only have 60watts total, but despite this my corals look great as far as size & polyp extension. But I am noticing that they are loosing their bright colors but only slightly for example my torch is a light brown color.

I know I need to add some supplimental 453nm blue but what style strength and colors would ppl recommend. I have corals of all colors so I wanna bring out the greens, blues, pinks, purples, etc. any advice or tips are welcome, and if anyone is looking for some quality LED fixtures the 2 I mentioned above are for sale.amd here is a couple pics of my tank.

kmaintl · Oct 1, 2012

i'm not sure, but it looks like your corals are getting bleached... which could mean too intensive lighting.

barndtman84 · Oct 2, 2012

Ok no far from it must be the pics

Aznyoyoboy57 · Oct 3, 2012

hmmm maybe the lights are too lose, bring it up a little and maybe more royal blue? guess guessing
Or put that bubble at the bottom or most of the LPS at the bottom

prsnlty · Oct 3, 2012

I have AI LEDs and I agree you need to raise your royal blues if you can do so. It made a huge difference in my LPS corals.

125g mixed reef Peninsula

barndtman84 · Oct 3, 2012

Yeah I totally agree when I had my 90 gal reef I had 2 120 watt blue moon white/blue LED fixtures and my corals colors were sick and they Havnt lost too much color but would 453nm blue work?